A living relic / Ivan Turgenev ; translated by Constance Garnett -- A Christmas tree and a wedding / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by P.H. Porosky -- The story of Yemilyan and the empty drum / Leo Tolstoy -- The bet / Anton Chekhov -- Ritter gluck / E.T.A. Hoffmann ; translated by Peter Gontrum -- The taking of the redoubt / Prosper Mérimée -- Consolation / Giovanni Verga ; translated by Giovanni Cecchetti -- The piece of string / Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Jonathan Sturges -- The traveler's story of a terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- A tradition of 1804 / Thomas Hardy -- The sisters Qita / Arnold Bennett -- The story of Muhammad Din / Rudyard Kipling -- The lord of the dynamos / H.G. Wells -- The remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce -- Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn / Mark Twain -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- A deal in wheat / Frank Norris -- The young man who flew past / Arcadii Averchenko ; translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney -- The awakening / Isaac Babel ; translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney -- "Our father who art in heaven" / Valentin Katayev ; translated by Marie Winn -- Tobias Mindernickel / Thomas Mann -- The poet / Hermann Hesse ; translated by Peter Gontrum -- Jackals and Arabs / Franz Kafka ; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir -- The last judgment / Karel Čapek ; translated by Norma Jeanne McFadden and Leopold Pospišil -- The chronicle of an old rose-tree / Strates Myriveles ; translated by Emmanuel Hatzantonis -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Lloyd Alexander -- I[vy day in the committee room](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20571820W) / James Joyce -- The blind man / D.H. Lawrence -- The fly / Katherine Mansfield -- The other side of the hedge / E.M. Forster -- The duchess and the jeweller / Virginia Woolf -- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen -- Brother / Graham Greene -- Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor -- "Europe" / Henry James -- While the auto waits / O. Henry -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- The benefits of American life / James T. Farrell -- Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle -- The boar hunt / José Vasconcelos ; translated by Paul Waldorf -- The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated by Harriet D. Onís -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- The life you save may be your own / Flannery O'Connor -- The brigadier / Isaac Rosenfeld -- Happy marriage / R.V. Cassill -- Wedding night / Tommaso Landolfi ; translated by Raymond Rosenthal -- Snow / Ted Hughes -- Us he devours / James B. Hall -- A world ends / Wolfgang Hildesheimer -- The secret room / Alain Robbe-Grillet ; translated by Richard Howard -- Stories and texts for nothing, III / Samuel Beckett ; translated by Anthony Bonner and Samuel Beckett.